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...grew up looking out my window at Kings College chapel [the iconic building at Cambridge University, which Rushdie attended]," he says. "And its hard not to believe in the capacity of religion to create beauty" with that sight in his memory. He then expressed wonder that, as a non-Christian secularist, he was invited in 1993 to preach a sermon in that same chapel and did. "There are moments in your life that surprise you," he said...
Today, the term “religious conflict” might bring to mind the troubles in the Middle East and the culture clash between the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. Perhaps it might recall the rise of the Evangelical Right in America and the debate over the teaching of evolution and intelligent design in schools. But in his book “The Best of All Possible Worlds,” Steven Nadler evokes a time when the greatest religious conflicts were located within the Christian Church itself, between Protestantism and Catholicism. Nadler relays the intellectual debate that took...
...rise from her stomach. He was responsible for this, she knew. The Stable Boy, in all his malicious depravity, had been arranging her master’s downfall. Roxanna had seen The Stable Boy up close, and who else could have reduced Frederick—an artist! and a Christian!—to such a state. She peeked over the edge of the hill. Frederick was still on the branch, his limbs reaching weakly for the water. Roxanna knew what Frederick needed. He needed something—no! someone—to turn him back toward the good...
...aggressive, sometimes jingoistic way he delivered, eight songs about affection and relationship troubles might not cut it. Keith should go back to his bread and butter if he’s going to prove that he’s as good as he once was. —Reviewer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...that render his work a worthy read. Not only are his views of child-rearing surprisingly modern for the 20s, but he also incorporates such stereotypically American ideas as that of personal living-space and the capitalist work ethic alongside more traditional concepts of sin and religion. Though of Christian heritage and clearly inspired by the Bible, Gibran does not constrain his concept of spirituality to one particular doctrine, and thus Almustafa’s words stil resonate with a modern-day agnostic. “Religion,” in the sense of the word that Gibran understands...